| Nigerian troops battle Boko Haram Islamists Posted: 01 Sep 2014 12:03 PM PDT  Militants attacked Nigerian troops as they prepared retake an embattled town.
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| Detained Americans in North Korea seek U.S. help Posted: 01 Sep 2014 11:45 AM PDT  By James Pearson and Alina Selyukh SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three American citizens detained in North Korea appealed on Monday to the U.S government for help returning home, speaking in rare interviews set up by the North Korean government. One of them said his health was failing and another described his situation as "urgent." The three men said they were being treated humanely but asked the U.S. Responding to the interviews, the U.S. State Department urged Pyongyang to release the men, and said Washington was working actively to try to secure their return home.
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| Cry for help from Americans detained in North Korea Posted: 01 Sep 2014 11:07 AM PDT  Three detained Americans seek diplomatic negotiations for their freedom.
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| Obama notifies Congress of airstrikes in Iraq Posted: 01 Sep 2014 10:34 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has sent official notification to Congress of his order for last week's airstrikes and humanitarian aid drops to help Iraqis threatened by Islamic State militants.
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| Horrors committed by Islamists in Iraq Posted: 01 Sep 2014 08:26 AM PDT  UN officials say ISIS has carried out atrocities on "an unimaginable scale."
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| Ukrainians pull back from airport; Poroshenko slams Russia Posted: 01 Sep 2014 07:54 AM PDT  By Richard Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military said on Monday it had pulled its forces back from defending a vital airport in the east against Russian tanks, as President Petro Poroshenko accused Moscow of "direct and open aggression". The withdrawal from the civilian airport outside the city of Luhansk was the latest in a string of reverses for Ukrainian forces fighting pro-Russian separatists who Kiev says have the direct support of hundreds of Russian troops and armor. A military statement said Ukrainian paratroopers were engaging a Russian tank battalion near the airport.
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| China universities vow ideology clampdown on staff, students Posted: 01 Sep 2014 07:04 AM PDT  A wider suppression on free expression in China intensifies.
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| Ukraine accuses Russia of "open aggression" Posted: 01 Sep 2014 05:51 AM PDT  By Pavel Polityuk and Polina Devitt KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Monday of "direct and open aggression" which he said had radically changed the battlefield balance as Kiev's forces suffered a further reverse in the war with pro-Moscow separatists. Ukraine's military said its troops had been ordered to pull back from a vital airport in the east of the country, near the city of Luhansk, where they had been battling a Russian tank battalion. Poroshenko said in a speech there would be high-level personnel changes in the Ukrainian armed forces, whose troops fled a new rebel advance in the south which Kiev's Western allies say has been backed up by Russian armored columns. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who called on Sunday for immediate negotiations on the "statehood" of southern and eastern Ukraine, blamed Kiev's leadership for refusing to enter into direct political talks with the separatists.
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| Florida power utilities fear return of ‘Green Governor' Crist Posted: 01 Sep 2014 05:32 AM PDT  By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - When Charlie Crist last governed Florida, his green energy and climate policies made him few friends among the state's powerful electricity corporations. Florida's three largest utilities have poured money into the re-election campaign of Republican incumbent Governor Rick Scott in an expensive and closely watched political battle for the nation's largest swing state. As Republican governor between 2007 and 2011, Crist "sent shivers through the entire utility system," said Colleen Castille, who headed the Florida Department of Environmental Protection under Governor Jeb Bush. Crist was a darling of clean energy advocates, hosting a climate change summit in 2007 alongside another green Republican, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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| Protesters clash with Pakistan police, storm TV Posted: 01 Sep 2014 02:57 AM PDT  Antigovernment protesters briefly force the state TV channel off the air as they clashed with police.
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| Paris suburb building blast death toll reaches 7 Posted: 01 Sep 2014 02:08 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — The death toll in the partial collapse of a four-story apartment building has risen to seven in a northeastern Paris suburb after emergency crews pulled the body of an elderly woman from the rubble.
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| Kiev: Ukraine soldiers in battle with Russian tanks in Lugansk Posted: 01 Sep 2014 01:05 AM PDT  Ukrainian troops on Monday were battling a Russian tank contingent in the eastern city of Lugansk, Kiev said, accusing Moscow's army units of moving into large cities in the region. "The battle between Ukrainian paratroopers and a reinforced tank battalion of the Russian armed forces is continuing with the goal of controlling the Lugansk airfield," military spokesman Leonid Matyukhin wrote on his Facebook page. Ukraine's Defence Minister Valeriy Geletey further said that Russian units are moving into other towns in the region, including the largest city of the region Donetsk.
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| Gunman in New Zealand kills 2, flees on bicycle Posted: 31 Aug 2014 09:39 PM PDT  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand town was on high alert Monday as police hunted for a gunman they say killed two people and injured a third at an unemployment office before fleeing on a bicycle.
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| Kahne holds off Kenseth to win Atlanta shootout Posted: 31 Aug 2014 09:07 PM PDT  HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Kasey Kahne grabbed the lead on the restart following a caution with 23 laps remaining and held off Matt Kenseth in a two-lap shootout to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday night.
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| Early exit for Stewart on return to NASCAR racing Posted: 31 Aug 2014 08:51 PM PDT  Tony Stewart received a rapturous welcome and made a fast start before making a premature exit on his return to competitive racing on Sunday, three weeks after he struck and killed a young racer at a dirt track in New York. The three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion twice hit the wall at Atlanta Motor Speedway, the second collision occurring after his right front tire blew out on the 172nd lap, forcing him to quit the 325-lap race. Stewart, who had missed three NASCAR races since the Aug. 9 accident in which he killed 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr. during a non-NASCAR sprint car race, declined to speak to reporters after driving his battered No. 14 car off the track. "I wish we could have had a better effort and a better finish for him but we move on to Richmond and see if we can't get it done there," Chad Johnston, Stewart's crew chief, told ESPN television.
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| Dad of woman who helped kill 3 honors victims Posted: 31 Aug 2014 08:36 PM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The father of a woman whose June rampage with her husband left two Las Vegas police officers and a good Samaritan dead visited the restaurant and store where the three were gunned down, saying he was still in disbelief and thinks about the victims' families every day.
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| Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy tie the knot Posted: 31 Aug 2014 08:20 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Donnie Wahlberg's "Favorite Girl" Jenny McCarthy is now his wife.
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| Actress Jenny McCarthy marries pop star Donnie Wahlberg Posted: 31 Aug 2014 08:03 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Actress Jenny McCarthy and pop star turned reality television star Donnie Wahlberg have tied the knot in Chicago, family and media said on Sunday. McCarthy, a former co-host of the daytime talk show, "The View," and Wahlberg, part of 1980s boy band New Kids on the Block, held their ceremony in the Chicago suburb of St. Charles, WGN-TV said. Donnie's brother, actor Mark Wahlberg, was not at the ceremony, but posted a message and video on photo sharing site Instagram saying he and his family "wish we could be there." "Congratulations from all of us," it said. Donnie and Mark Wahlberg currently co-star on a reality television show called "Wahlburgers" that focuses on brother Paul's Massachusetts restaurant.
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| Ernst wins LPGA's Portland Classic in playoff Posted: 31 Aug 2014 07:48 PM PDT  PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — Austin Ernst won the LPGA Tour's Portland Classic on Sunday with a par on the first hole of a playoff against South Korea's I.K. Kim.
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| Judge temporarily blocks law that could close all Louisiana abortion clinics Posted: 31 Aug 2014 07:31 PM PDT  By Jonathan Kaminsky NEW ORLEANS La. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked a Louisiana law that advocates say would likely have closed of all five abortion clinics in the state. The measure, signed into law by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in June and due to take effect Sept. 1, would require doctors who perform abortions to have patient admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their practice. "Plaintiffs will be allowed to operate lawfully while continuing their efforts to obtain privileges," Federal Judge John deGravelles wrote in the ruling.
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| China's official PMI slips to 51.1 in August Posted: 31 Aug 2014 06:58 PM PDT  An index of growth in China's vast manufacturing sector fell from a 27-month high to 51.1 in August, a government study showed on Monday, slightly less than forecast and adding to signs of growing softness in the Chinese economy. China's official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) slipped in August from July's 51.7, the National Bureau of Statistics said, slightly missing the median forecast of 51.2 in a Reuters poll.
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| Libyan armed faction takes over U.S. Embassy annex in Tripoli Posted: 31 Aug 2014 06:27 PM PDT  By Mark Hosenball and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of a Libyan militia have taken over an abandoned annex of the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli but have not broken into the main compound where the United States evacuated all of its staff last month, U.S. A YouTube video showed the breach of the diplomatic facility by what was believed to be a militia group mostly from the northwestern city of Misrata. Libya has been rocked by the worst factional violence since the 2011 fall of Muammar Gaddafi, and a Misrata-led alliance, part of it which is Islamist-leaning, now controls the capital.
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| Federer roars into fourth round after weather delay Posted: 31 Aug 2014 06:10 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grand slam king Roger Federer came back with renewed vigor after a weather delay to rout Spaniard Marcel Granollers 4-6 6-1 6-1 6-1 and charge into the fourth round of the U.S. Open on Sunday. The 42nd-ranked Granollers surprisingly led the second-seeded Swiss 5-2 when lightning and heavy rains suspended their afternoon match at Arthur Ashe Stadium. ...
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| Asian shares wobble in early trade, euro sinks Posted: 31 Aug 2014 05:55 PM PDT  By Lisa Twaronite TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares balked at the starting gate on Monday, skittish in the face of a deepening Ukraine crisis, while the euro touched a fresh one-year low ahead of this week's European Central Bank meeting. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned a "full-scale war" was imminent if Russian troops continued to advance in support of pro-Moscow rebels as U.S. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down about 0.2 percent in early trading, pulling away from Thursday's high of 515.13, its highest since early 2008. Japan's Nikkei stock average added about 0.3 percent, after shedding 1.3 percent in August.
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| All five aboard small plane killed in crash at Colorado airport Posted: 31 Aug 2014 05:23 PM PDT By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - All five people aboard a single-engine airplane were killed when it crashed on Sunday in a field adjacent to a runway at a northern Colorado airport, authorities said. Peter Knudson, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, said the Piper PA-46 aircraft went down shortly before noon near the Erie Municipal Airport, about 25 miles northwest of Denver. "We don't know yet know if it was taking off or landing," said Knudson, adding that five people were on board the plane, which crashed in clear weather. Roger Rademacher, assistant fire chief with Mountain View Fire Rescue, said emergency crews found two people dead inside the wreckage of the six-seat airplane when they arrived at the scene. |
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